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may produce fever in doo's, may endanger the spreading of that disease ?— 
Yes ; whatever produces fever. 
Then, is it your opinion, that the practice which has for a considerable 
time existed in the metropolis of exposing dogs in carts to severe labour and 
cruel treatment, has tended to make the disease more frequent ?—Yes, I 
think so, from having had dogs brought to me within the last few months, 
to know what was their complaint, some dead and some living. I have always 
inquired whether they have worked; and it has frequently occurred that they 
have worked in carts, which was, no doubt, the cause of the disease. 
Mr. C. Lushing'ton. —Is it your opinion also that depriving dogs of a sup¬ 
ply of suitable food drives them mad ?—If they have crude, indigestible, im¬ 
proper food, the stomach becomes disordered; and I have very often found 
that the disease originated from crude or improper food. 
And the disease is therefore more likely to occur in dogs among that class 
who are not capable of giving them proper food ?—Yes; I have found it most 
frequent among those that live upon improper food. 
Then the Committee may collect from your evidence that you consider 
the employment of dogs in that way, in carts and so on, as a public nui¬ 
sance?—Yes, undoubtedly it is. 
Would not the industrious classes justly complain, if the employing of 
dogs in carrying burdens were suppressed by legislative enactment?—Yes ; 
I think if you could satisfy people tb.at the dog was never intended by nature 
for draft, they would be more inclined to suppress it. Dogs not having 
hoofs, cannot be shod; their feet being soft, they are often cut and lacerat¬ 
ed by the stones in the roads and streets. It would not only be less cruel, 
but less inconsistent to work sheep and goats, as is done sometimes, not on 
account of their feet being better defended, but their more compact form. 
When done with, or the season being over, they, as well as oxen, might be 
fatted, and used for food; but, what is most important, the risk of hydro¬ 
phobia in man, and rabies in animals, would be avoided. 
Are you aware whether the tax is enforced upon dogs among that class of 
persons ?—I am not aware. 
Are you aware whether it would be worth their while to pay the tax for 
those dogs?—I do not know; many make their living by carrying about 
wood, vegetables, and various kinds of ware. 
Mr. Hume. —Is it your opinion that an increased attention on the part of 
the police could check in any degree that ill usage which you say produces 
that fever, or tendency to madness, which you describe in dogs ?—Yes ; and 
I think that might be done, provided they were brought within the enact¬ 
ment of Mr. Martin’s Act against cruelty to animals. 
From your examinations of the dogs that have died, is it your opinion that 
bad food, as well as severe treatment, tends to produce hydrophobia?—Yes ; 
whatever will induce fever and affections of the brain and nervous system. 
Mr. C. Lnshington. —Are you aware of any cases of hydrophobia at pre¬ 
sent in the hospitals in London ?—I am not myself aware of any at present; 
I read of cases in the various medical journals, and I have seen them. 
Mr. Hume. —Can you state any means by which the tendency to hydro¬ 
phobia could be lessened, and the danger of its many consequences re¬ 
moved ?—Yes ; by diminishing the working of dogs. You cannot put a stop 
to it quite, but some means, either by remonstrance or rewards, might be 
used to diminish it. I have forbidden several persons coming to our pre¬ 
mises for the sale of their articles with a dog-cart. Other persons might do 
the same; and this becoming a general practice, the number of these 
conveyances would be materially lessened. 
By preventing that ill-treatment you have alluded to ?—Yes ; more acci- 
